Books written by Douglas E. Cowan
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The Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion
rodney Stark and William Sims bainbridge argue that “the vision of a religionless future is but illusion.”5 They recognize that secularization, a powerful trend in the present, is not a new phenomenon. religious economies have always ...
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Cults and New Religions: A Brief History
This updated edition of Cults and New Religions achieves this admirably. With an enviable grasp of contemporary scholarship, Douglas Cowan and David Bromley provide fresh insights into particular groups, events, and controversies.
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Magic, Monsters, and Make-Believe Heroes: How Myth and Religion Shape Fantasy Culture
Illuminating everything from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Dungeons and Dragons, and from Drunken Master to Mad Max, Douglas E. Cowan offers a modern manifesto for why and how mythology remains a vital force today. “The scope of Douglas E. ...
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Cyberhenge: Modern Pagans on the Internet
Cyberhenge examines the use of Internet technology in shaping religious traditions and rituals. Cowan asks how and why Neopaganism has embraced the Internet in such an innovative and imaginative way.
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Cults and New Religions: A Brief History
Eugene V. Gallagher and W. Michael Ashcraft, pp. 169–196. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. Cowan, Douglas E., and Jeffrey K. Hadden ... New York: Simon and Schuster. Cunningham, Scott (1988). Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner.
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Bearing False Witness?: An Introduction to the Christian Countercult
Analyzes and critiques the Christian Countercult movement as a discrete socioreligious entity.
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Cults and New Religions: A Brief History
Organized peyote use among Indian peoples can be traced to the 1880s, following the consignment of Plains Indians to reservations in Oklahoma, when Comanche Chief Quanah Parker and Caddo Indian John Wilson were instrumental in the ...
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Magic, Monsters, and Make-Believe Heroes: How Myth and Religion Shape Fantasy Culture
How Myth and Religion Shape Fantasy Culture Douglas E. Cowan. short-lived television series, ... she asks Kyle Reese, the soldier sent back in time to protect her from Skynet's cyborg assassin. “I mean, am I tough? Organized?
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Religion Online: Finding Faith on the Internet
Religion Online provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to this burgeoning new religious reality, from cyberpilgrimages to neo-pagan chatroom communities.
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Religion on the Internet: Research Prospects and Promises
This volume provides a conceptual mapping of religion in cyberspace. It is intended for those who seek to understand how religion is being presented on the Internet, and how this topic is likely to unfold.
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The Forbidden Body: Sex, Horror, and the Religious Imagination
Sex, Slander, and Salvation: Investigating The Family/The Children of God. Stanford, CA: Center for Academic Publication, 1994. Lewis, Matthew. The Monk. 1796. Edited by Howard Anderson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
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The Forbidden Body: Sex, Horror, and the Religious Imagination
Taming Lust: Crimes Against Nature in the Early Republic. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. Benshoff, Harry M. Monsters in the Closet: Homosexuality and the Horror Film. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, ...
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The Forbidden Body: Sex, Horror, and the Religious Imagination
152 Price, “Introduction,” in Price, ed., Acolytes of Cthulhu, 11; for a selection of Price's own Lovecraftian fiction, see Price, The Selma Horror and Others. 153 Newman, “Foreword,” in Joshi, ed., The Madness of Cthulhu, volume 2, 9.
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Magic, Monsters, and Make-Believe Heroes: How Myth and Religion Shape Fantasy Culture
Occasionally, the brothers are Lost Boys and Wendy their makebelieve mother. In this adaptation, which is amusing, racist, and sexist by turns, the stories of Neverland are already well known to the children, daily shaping their games ...
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Religion Online: Finding Faith on the Internet
Film coverage and day-by-day reports taken from the pilgrimage were edited together and placed online, forming a resource for further study. Dynamic eyewitness accounts of key elements in the hajj experience are presented from the ...
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Cyberhenge: Modern Pagans on the Internet
NetPolicy.Com : Public Agenda for a Digital World . Washington , DC : Woodrow Wilson Center Press . Simpson , D. P. , ed . ( 1968 ) . Cassell's Latin Dictionary , fifth ed . , s.v. " veritas . " New York : Macmillan Publishing Company .
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Cults and New Religions: A Brief History
An overview of the development of new religions and the controversies surrounding them in late modern society. A stimulating, course-friendly overview of the history and development...
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Religion Online: Finding Faith on the Internet
Religion Online provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to this burgeoning new religious reality, from cyberpilgrimages to neo-pagan chatroom communities.
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America's Dark Theologian: The Religious Imagination of Stephen King
America's dark theologian: reading Stephen King religiously -- Thin spots: what peeks through the cracks in the world -- Deadfall: ghost stories as God-talk -- A jumble of blacks and whites: becoming religious -- Return to Ackerman's field: ...
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Sacred Space: The Quest for Transcendence in Science Fiction Film and Television
To infinity and beyond! Douglas Cowan studies the efforts of science fiction writers to uncover humanity's great purpose. To infinity and beyond, SciFi's missions to find humanity's great purpose